California Fruit Company
This company was a competitor of Opekta in the Dutch pectin market.
Address: Hartenstraat 24, Amsterdam.[1]
California Fruit Company was a competitor of Opekta on the Dutch pectin market. The Hartenstraat branch was probably a sales office or agency of the California Fruit Company of the United States, founded in 1931.[2] The company advertised a pectin product under the name Cinella in 1939.[1] In 1940, a shopkeeper in Delft advertised with Opekta, Penjel and Cinella.[3]
In the archive of the Dutch Opekta Mij. there are a few bags of Cinella.[4]
According to Frans Hofhuis, pectin expert, pectin of Californian origin is made from citrus fruits.[5]
Footnotes
- a, b Advertentie “Meer en Betere Jams en Geleien”, Algemeen Handelsblad, 12 juli 1939, avondeditie, p. 6.
- ^ The California Fruit Company still exists today. The company's lin of business includes the wholesale distribution of fresj fruits and vegetables.
- ^ Advertentie “Voor de inmaak”, Delftsche Courant, 10 augustus 1940, p. 8.
- ^ NIOD Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, toegangsnr, 292, inv. nr. 104: pakje Cinella, zonder datum.
- ^ .Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenverhalen II: interview Frans Hofhuis door Teresien da Silva, 17 november 2011.